Getting ramped up for another year of singles on Monday nights. Format this year will be essentially the same as last year -- Open and Recreational divisions, both using handicaps based on performance in previous ERP Monday Night Singles rounds and PDGA rating (or on PDGA ratings only for first-timers who have one, ERP rounds only for Rec division).

Start times will vary from 5:30 (sign in by 5:15) at the beginning and end of the season to 6:15 (sign in by 6 pm) in the middle of the summer. Full schedules posted on DiscGolfScene.com. First week will be March 14. We've shortened the end of the year by two weeks since getting finished in daylight was a problem the last couple of weeks last year -- last week will be October 17.

Buy-in will be the same as last year.

Points will be awarded in each division each week on the same basis as last year -- one point for each player in your division that you beat that week. Points will be tracked on DiscGolfScene.com at the URL for each division below.

Open division will play the following rotation of tee pads:1st and 4th Monday of each month: Black Tees2nd Monday of each month: Blue Tees3rd Monday of each month: Red Tees5th Monday of the month (occurs in March, May, and August this year): TD's choice

In the Open division, the top eight point earners after the next-to-last week (October 10) will be invited to participate in a skins final the last week (October 17), with a Gold Flight of the top four finishers and a Silver Flight of the second four finishers (if anyone declines to participate the next players in order in the standings will be eligible to take their place). Gold Flight skins will be worth a minimum of $6 hole, Silver Flight skins will be worth a minimum of $3 hole. Skins will be paid out of remaining ace fund money, so if the ace fund exceeds $162 on October 14, the value of the skins will be increased accordingly. If there's less than $162 in the ace fund on October 14, the RDGC will make up the difference to meet the guaranteed value.

Rec will alternate Red and Blue tees -- Reds on the 1st and 3rd week of the month, Blues on the 2nd and 4th week. 5th Mondays will be Red in March, Black in May, and Blue in August.

Top five point earners in Rec division will receive merchandise prizes, value to be determined by total participation. 2010 First Place winner Matt Eatmon received an Innova portable basket valued at over $100, while Second through Fifth Place received Disc Caddie merchandise vouchers of $35, $25, $15, and $10 respectively. The more people who play, the bigger the prizes will be.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Out-of-bounds rules for both divisions:Hole 2: On or across the paved walking path to the west of the basket area on 2 is OB. The creek flowing through Hole 2 is OB if the disc is completely surrounded by water.

Hole 6: On or across the crushed stone walking path behind the basket area is OB.

Hole 10: On or across the paved path between the tennis courts and the stone wall to the left of the fairway is OB.

Hole 11: On or across the paved walking path from the Eves Road parking lot into the park, on the left side of hole 11, is OB. Obviously, across the path between the stone wall and the black tee pad for 11 is not. Any flag or paint line between 11 and 17 is NOT OB. On or across the crushed stone walking path behind the basket area is OB.

Hole 12: Inside the "lake" on 12, denoted by the logs, is OB -- if there's a gap in the logs, a straight line connecting the logs via the shortest path should be considered the OB line.

Hole 14: On or across the crushed stone walking path behind the basket area is OB.

Hole 15: On or across the crushed stone walking path along the left side of the fairway and behind the basket area is OB.

Hole 17: Flag or paint line between 11 and 17 fairways is NOT OB.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

I won't be there to run things most weeks this year as I'm back to traveling for work a lot. We'll rotate responsibility among the RDGC board members (Imran, Bradshaw, Lofstrand, and Porter), but would love a few additional volunteers who'd be willing to step in occasionally as well -- PM me if you'd be willing/able to help. I'll still take care of posting scores/points, calculating handicaps, etc.

Looking forward to seeing everyone out there again this year. Let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Singles begins next Monday night. Plan to meet at around 5:15 so that we can try to get started at 5:30. I've rearranged my travel schedule for next week to leave on Tuesday morning, so I'll be there to help get things kicked off, but have to leave for a school event for my son at 7 pm.

Handicaps will be based on most recent four rounds in singles last year -- based on all rounds for anyone who played fewer than four times. I'll post the full handicaps list in the next day or two. Other details in the first post in this thread. If you have any questions, please PM me or post to this thread.

Woodrow wrote:Having never participated in this league, what initial handicap would a 968 PDGA rated player receive?

Woody -- I apologize for not answering earlier -- I'm on the road most weeks this year and Bradshaw and Porter are handling things on the ground on Mondays; I'm still doing the stats and handicaps and such.

Formula for a player with a PDGA rating for initial handicap is ((1000 - <rating>) / 7.5)*-1, rounded to the nearest integer. So for a 968 rated player, 1000-968=32, and 32/7.5=4.27, so initial handicap would be -4.

Once you've played at least one time, the handicap for Open is based 2/3 on your average difference from the historical SSA for the layouts played and 1/3 on your rating-based handicap. Rec handicaps are based solely on how you shoot in Monday night rounds.

We (East Roswell Disc Golf Club) are in need of a figurehead to run the action. None of us on the board can commit to every Monday (work/travel/family obligations). The collecting of funds and record keeping/updating is not a hard job persay, but could become very hard if the job has to get passed between many people. Players want consistent action and we need a consistent person to run it.

I would love to run this. Im starting to have Mondays off but am hesitant to say I will be there to run it every Monday also you have me worried when you use the worried persay with the updating/keeping of the records. So basically Im not sure if i can commit to being there every Monday... Maybe one other volunteer to help run it together with me. I know that would put me more at ease.

Starting Monday, May 7th, I am available to help run things if someone is still needed. My school obligations keep me unavailable until then, but I would not mind helping out to get this season started again. Some great Monday night memories last season in the Rec division for sure. Looking forward to playing this season (whenever the start date is set).

Could not make it on Monday due to family reasons. Can we get an update of what went down at the meeting?

Also I am willing to help run REC with Gerry since this DIV is less "competitive" and worried about payouts. A third volunteer would be helpful but than I am not sure if you guys want to keep things separate b/w DIV or everything under a umbrella. I think this would ease off some of the responsibilities listed above.

The RDGC has elected to run a handicapped singles league that will take place every other Saturday morning. Tim Acker will take this bull by the horns and run the action. Yes, it will conflict with Alexander Doubles (every other week), but being 45 minutes away and singles action (not doubles) we felt it would fill a void and draw in players that would probably not be able to make it to Alexander anyway.